Compiling Python 2.4 extensions with free VC++ Toolkit

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Jody Burns wrote (with Peter):

> See Mike C. Fletcher's post and 
> http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/ for a way to do it 
> very easily (you have to be able to use the GNU patch tool, but that's 
> not difficult at all).
>
> --Jody

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>> not been able to get into hacking on the core of Python because
>
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>> -Peter
>
Keep in mind that the recipe there is for building *extensions*, not 
core Python.  There's a pointer from my page to a post by someone who 
seemed to have built core Python with the Toolkit, but my page isn't 
going to help Peter much with hacking on core Python.

Just an FYI,
Mike

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